Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Releases “Live at The Roundhouse” Album and Concert Film
After being rescheduled due to the pandemic, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his band Saucerful of Secrets have released Live at The Roundhouse. The album and concert film is taken from a 2019 performance at the London venue with the group exploring Floyd’s earlier works with original singer Syd Barrett.
“Syd had a strange way of writing, which made it sound like a ‘normal’ pop song, and then it would lurch into something else,” Mason told Billboard. “[That] makes it such a great vehicle for us… I’ve always been interested in the idea of exploring the old catalog. After the Pink Floyd Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, I was reminded how special and undervalued the early period of Pink Floyd is. Then Lee Harris came along with the suggestion of putting a band together. It had been 25 years since I’d been out with a band playing live, but it made me realize I wanted to play this music live again, so the timing was everything.”
Mason’s band includes Gary Kemp, Lee Harris, Dom Beken, and bassist Guy Pratt. The drummer and bassist have worked together for years as Pratt first joined Pink Floyd in 1987 following the departure of Roger Waters. While his time in the band was well after Barrett’s departure, Pratt was equally influenced by the late singer.
“Syd’s ghost has held sway over every British music movement that’s come along since he left Pink Floyd,” he said. “It is interesting getting inside the glass display case of Syd, re-humanizing Pink Floyd, rather than doing some note-perfect stadium show. Our Pink Floyd is this rather scrappy, poppy, punk group.”
Check out the band performing “Astronomy Domine” with Pratt handling both bass and vocal duties:
Live at the Roundhouse is available now on Blu-Ray, CD/DVD, vinyl, and as a digital download (iTunes and Amazon MP3).
Live at the Roundhouse Track List:
- Interstellar Overdrive
- Astronomy Domine
- Lucifer Sam
- Fearless
- Obscured by Clouds
- When You’re In
- Remember a Day
- Arnold Layne
- Vegetable Man
- If
- Atom Heart Mother
- If (Reprise)
- The Nile Song
- Green is the Colour
- Let There Be More Light
- Childhood End
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
- See Emily Play
- Bike
- One of These Days
- A Saucerful of Secrets
- Point Me at the Sky